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To: Grainne who wrote (41958)	6/27/1999 12:10:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

Tapioca is made from starch of the cassava plant. The starch must be washed because the cassava is poisonous. The round grains make "fisheyes." They make a very nice pudding. If broken up, the pudding is about the same but the grain isn't "fisheyes." After I post this, I will go down to my refrigerator and grab a plastic tub of tapioca pudding. Yum!

To: Grainne who wrote (41958)	6/27/1999 12:14:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Christine, here is a definition of tapioca: A starchy substance extracted from the root of the CASSAVA plant. It's available in several forms including granules, flakes, pellets (called pearl tapioca ) and flour or starch. The most widely available forms are tapioca flour (also called cassava flour ) and pearl tapioca. The flour is used as a thickening agent for soups, fruit fillings, glazes, etc., much like CORNSTARCH. Pearl tapioca is used mainly to make pudding... Real pearl tapioca makes a pudding that resembles a bowl of closely-packed little fish eggs (which no doubt is why I recommended throwing it in the fishpond, "where it belongs")-- or spider eggs, as your daughter has suggested. And no, unfortunately, I do not know how my mother made the pudding with coffee. Suggest she just drizzled some into the pot. (??) Joan

To: Grainne who wrote (41958)	6/27/1999 12:20:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

MYSTERY COMET MAY SPELL THE END Peter Snipes, The Daily Reporter Perth, Australia Just what is the mystery behind HC1/1999Lee, better known as Comet Lee? Some say it is a lonely visitor making a brief flyby of our solar system on its continuing journey out to the stars -- a trip lasting some thousands of millions of years. Others insist that it is the "King of Terror" predicted by Nostradamus himself. We'll all know soon enough. The visitor is scheduled to re-appear in the Northern hemisphere's skies during their summer months on it's return trip around the back side of the sun. Ominously, the comet does cross our orbit. . .

To: Grainne who wrote (41958)	6/27/1999 9:32:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 108807

CASSAVA is grown and harvested in South America. Tapioca is primarily made there and sometimes involves the native women chewing the roots into a pulp and spitting the wet mass into crusty wooden bowls. The resulting pulp is compressed and often stuffed into old 50 gallon oil barrel drums and shipped by river barge to cities for a bit more refinement and repackaging before being sent to American cities for final refinement and packaging for industrial food processors/or retail supermarts. FT